in trouble for turning the tables on an alleged bully telling the kindergarteners in the class to line up and hit a classmate. it's monday, june 18th, and "starting point" begins right now. good morning, and good morning, everybody, there are signs that a market rally could be fading after initial excitement over the results of the greek national elections. the proeuro party known as new democracy party eked out a win by 3.4% over the party that wanted to leave the european u.nion union. an alliance between the new party and pasok to bring them to 162 seats in the 300 seat parliament. matthew chance live in athens, good morning to you, matthew.

>> reporter: good morning, soledad, negotiations under way in the parliament building behind me here in athens to try to forge some type of coalition. the party that won the election yesterday, new democracy led by samaras, didn't get an absolute majority, only got 129 seats and needs 151 in the parliament to have a majority. so negotiations are continuing. he's got three days to try to bring together some of the other parties as well into a coalition. it's going to get greece out of this political and economic stalemate. the big point from the u.s. point of view and global point of view, samaras, the new democracy, supports the aus t austerity measured imposed on greece and not going to turn its back on its financial commitments and will for the most continue in the european single currency. big sigh of relief because of that. >> very big deadlines looming. matthew, thank you very much. still ahead, i'll talk to

ken rogoff, the former head of the international monetary fund. we'll be talking about what this really means. let's get an update on the top stories and christine romans has that. let's talk about egyps presidential election. the muslim brotherhood declaring victory for morsi in the first presidential vote since the uprising there. official results aren't in. millions of votes have to be counted. even if he does win, he may actually rule. president obama is in los cabos for the summit. the world bank calling on the leaders of the largest economies to stop buying time with short term fixes and implement deeper reforms to ease the global debt

crisis. also this morning, president obama is expected to meet with vad mir putin for the first time since the return to presidency. about 30 minutes from now. new details in the death of rodney king. the l.a. times reporting his fiancee was speaking to him through an open window at 5:30 in the morning when she heard a splash. not a good swimmer, she called police. police say there are no signs of foul play and an autopsy is expected. king became a symbol of racial tensions after riots erupted in 1992 when police officers were found not guilty in his infamous videotaped beating. king was 47 years old. >> in a dramatic run at the u.s. open, web simpson wins his first major championship. he won the tournament at one over par after leader tiger woods had a meltdown yesterday, finishing tied for 21st. it's the ninth consecutive golf major where the winner was a

first timer. it was a bizarre scene when a fan interrupted simpson's interview with bob costas. >> i knew that -- >> as the guy was taken away, simpson said, enjoy the jail cell, pal. >> what was his point with the cluking? >> it's so civilized golf and when it isn't, it's news. >> he sat up and acted like a bird. that would make news anywhere. let's get back to the top story which is greece where the new democracy party is expected to form a coalition government with the pasok party and stay in the european union. analysts are warning the group has to make swift moves to keep greece and the global economy from tanking. ken rogoff is the former chief economist for the imf and professor of economics and public policy at harvard. nice to see you, sir.

thank you very much, appreciate your time. >> pleasure. >> what do you think this means for markets today, we've seen a little up and down. >> probably means a little up and down. i mean, it's good news but not fantastic news. the euro didn't end today but the new government is very weak and shaky, europe as a whole is weak and shaky, they are in recession and they need to do something. this buys time but if they don't do anything, it's not going to help. >> they need to do actually some very specific things, right, by the end of the month, they have a deadline, i guess that's sort of technically like ten business days, more austerity and cuts. they don't default on the bailout. how likely is that to happen? what specifically do they have to do? >> well, they are way behind on meeting their deficit targets already. during the interim, this election campaign, they really weren't keeping up. i doubt they'll catch up. they have to renegotiate but the problem is deeper than that.

greece has been in huge recession, all of the young people who voted for the opposition are angry. there's 50% unemployment among young people in greece today. this is a program that's not working. it's got to change. and then often to spain they have 50% unemployment among young people there. this is a continent, this is a system that is really on the brink. it didn't explode today but they really haven't solved the problems. it's not just degrees. it's all of europe. >> greece's stability is affecting the stability of spain and affecting the stability of ita italy, and that in turn will bring big problems for the united states and big banks, right? >> absolutely, if europe were to fall apart, and we mean the euro were to fall apart, it would hit us very hard, the way our problems in 2008 hit them. but for now, they have a chance still to do something. but they've been working on greece for two years. they haven't put together a

viable program for greece and they haven't really figured out how to solve the deeper problems in the euro where they share a checking account but they are not married and just haven't figured out how to allocate the losses from the problems they have across the banking sector in europe. >> how do you fix that? isn't the challenge how do you make a single currency work when you don't have a single government? you're dealing with all of these different governments. how do you solve the problems without disbanning the euro all together? >> obviously nobody knows, this has never been done before on this scale. i think they have to look a lot more like a country in the eurozone. they have to have a common fiscal policy, like a treasury, like we have in the united states. it has to have taxing power. the european central bank has to have its equivalent of their federal reserve and they have to be able to more clearly buy government debt and represent europe. they need to have a common banking regulator because that's

been a part of the problem. there's just a myriad of changes and there's a lot of resistance. the voters in france kicked out sarkozy and elected elan who wants to step back from these measures. europe needs to move forward if it's not to -- we need to stay tuned to what happens. i don't think we're going to see anything quick. >> i would agree with you, even with those looming deadlines. you brought coins in, christine. >> ken, i have drachmas in my hand. i really do. a whole baggie full. >> they are not going to be worth much. >> we've avoided it for now but it goes to the point when people put them in the pig gi banks or grandma put them under the pillow. they never planned for a moment like this. they thought the crises would bring fiscal union and monetary

union together but that's not really what's happening. >> they never planned for a rainy day and it worked well for a while. you know, they always thought that they would have political union, that they would be part of a broader vision of europe, a single country in a sense, parallel to the united states. but they said our grandchildren will do that. that's not something we need to do yet. and the currency will make us stronger and make us move towards that. but i think that we've learned and what many of us thought before, you can't put the cart before the horse here. going and having the checking account before you got married, the common checking account, doesn't work. and they are in this problem where they blow up -- that's really horrible for the global economy, horrible for everyone, or they really have to make compromises. here's a region that fought two world wars in the last century. i mean, they have cultural differences and they need to put them aside. there's a new generation in europe. will they do that?

we need to see. they so far have taken only tentative steps. they are talking about doing more in the next couple of weeks. there's a ministers meeting at the end of the month. they say they have big plans. i hope so because we really need to see a quantum leap if this holds together, otherwise, italy will look like what we have seen in greece and problems in spain and so forth. >> could lead to major problems. ken rogoff, nice to see you. we appreciate your time. >> thank you so much. >> you bet. still ahead, behind the scenes of president obama's immigration order. we're talking to one of the christian evangelical leaders that the president met with before last week's executive order was released. >> plus, a teacher accused of telling her students to go ahead and pummel the class bully. you're watching "starting point." [ male announcer ] when this hotel added aflac

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♪ you know that song, "god bless the usa." you can see our playlist at cnn.com/starting point. so before president obama announced his new immigration policy, the white house met with evangelical christian leaders across the country last tuesday. that new policy would allow some young illegal immigrants to work without the threat of deportation. the directive applies to certain immigrants under the age of 30 who came to the united states before they turned 16. during last week's meeting, christian leaders discussed the evangelical statement of principles for immigration reform. it looks at immigration as a moral issue and calls for path

to citizenship for undocumented workers. dr. richard land is the president of the ethics and religious liberty convention of the southern baptist convention. the largest protestant group in the united states. thanks for being with us. we appreciate it. that meeting took place several days before the president made his announcement. can you tell me a little bit about the conversation that took place in that meeting? was he trying to get you on board? was it a discussion of sort of the evangelical values around immigration? >> well, we didn't meet with the president. we met with his advisers and we talked with them about the immigration evangelical round table that states certain principles immigration should be around respecting the god given dignity of every person and unity of the family and respecting the rule of law,

calling for security national borders and then calling for a pathway to either citizenship or full legal status for those who are here to earn a pathway to full legal status for those who are here in a documented form. we did talk about what's been called the dream act and senator rubio's alternative achieve act. you know, these people that were covered by this executive order, this is the low hanging fruit of immigration reform. these young people, 99.9% of them have done nothing wrong. they didn't bring themselves here. they were brought here as young children by their parents, many of them have no memory of their country of origin. they are -- they've been raised in the united states and gone to high school in the united states. they want to go to college and want to serve in our military -- >> it's interesting you call -- >> want to be fully participating parts -- >> it's interesting you call that low hanging fruit because there were some who say that not

only was it executive order done sort of around congress, obviously but done for political reasons. let me play you a little chunk of what mitt romney said on the weekend talk shows. >> if he felt seriously about this, he should have taken action when he had a democrat house and senate but he didn't. he saves these sort of things until four and a half months before the general election. >> why do you think he did that? >> well, i think the timing is pretty clear. if he really wanted to make a solution that dealt with these kids or illegal immigration in america, then this is something he would have taken up in az first three and a half years, not in his last few months. >> so he did it for politics? >> that's certainly a big part of the equation. >> do you think that's true, sir? that it was done politically, for political reasons? >> i have no way of knowing, i'm not running for president like mitt romney and not running for re-election like president obama. i can't know the motives of their hearts. look, if an election year, everything is going to be perceived as being political. but the president has been

waiting for congress to do something. congress hasn't done it. congress i think was actually in the process of seeking to do something. marco rubio was making real headway with a big that is remarkably analogous to what the president did. but for whatever reason the president did it, although i would rather have congress do it because that way it's long -- it's a long-term solution, not a short-term solution. but as marco rubio said, the president's action complicates the politics but reduces the urgency. it keeps the young people from the fear of being deported. these are young people that are a natural resource, between 800,000 and a million of these young people. they see themselves as americans and want to be americans and want to be prepare themselves to be productive members of our society. i'm trying to figure out what the problem is. >> when you say complicates the politics, of course, politicians on the conservative right who

you usually see eye to eye with, disagree with you and there's a long list now. what would you say to them about that? >> i would say they need to listen to their colleague, senator rubio, by why this is something that's good to do and ought to be done. this is the right thing to do. these young people didn't do anything except follow their parents to this country. you know, we hear people say, well, this is aamnesty. amnesty means you've done something to be for given for. they have done nothing wrong and they are innocent and want to be part of the country. we ought to be doing everything we can to give them the legal status and could confirm the legal status the president has temporarily given them. >> nice to have you, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> still ahead, today's get real is a story of a texas

kindergarteners whose classmates lined up to take a shot because they say he was a bully. they say it was their teacher's idea. let's bring in our starting point team, margaret hoover, my son has a giant crush on you. also the author -- >> i have a crush on him too. >> will cain, a contributor for the blaze.com. nice to have you. back in a moment. [ thunk ]

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represented in yesterday's march. critics say the practice of stopping and questioning people who police consider suspicious is illegal and humiliating to hundreds of law abiding minorities. members of the band radiohead are shattered by the loss of a crew member killed in a stage collapse on sunday. scott johnson got pinned underneath the rubble after the entire stage and scaffolding came tumbling down. three other people were injured. the cause of that accident is under investigation. jack osbourne announcing he has multiple sler rose sis. he was diagnosed from test taken after he lost 60% vision in one eye. he received the news two weeks ast birth of his daughter who is now two months old. soledad. >> oh, my goodness, sad news. >> wish him the best. >> thank you very much. our team joining me this morning, margaret hoover, author

of request"american individuali focus of a big crush by my son, seven so your husband can breathe a sigh of relief. will cain is with us and contributor and columnist for the blaze.com. wow, did you hear the story? it's so sad. our get real this morning takes place in san antonio, texas. teacher is going to lose her job after she did something incredibly stupid, which is this. there was a 6-year-old boy who seemed like she was -- sounds like by some descriptions he may have been a bully or tough in the class. so the teacher basically decided that what they would do is line up the classmates and have them hit the boy who was perceived to be the bully. apparently according to this police report, the teacher said in order to show why bullying is bad, instructing the peers to hit him and hit him harder, there was a second teacher involved who intervened after

one of the boys hit hard on the back. 22 kids hit the kid once at least twice. some kids said they did not want to hit the boy but they did because they were afraid not to with the two teachers. >> we try to figure out how to handle bullying, one thing we can savely say, this is not how you handle bullying. >> by a teacher. it's breathtakingly -- >> bullying of the kid they perceive to be the bully. >> if it's true, the parents say nobody ever contacted them to let them know there was a problem with her son. >> yes, aiden's mother. >> yes, she says he's not a bully, no one ever said there was a problem and it's not clear if he received any injuries. one teacher has been ousted all together, crazy. >> unbelievable. >> will cain, what are you wearing around your neck? >> this is an example of a little more productive -- >> i don't think the tv can see it like we can. >> this is my father's day

present from charlie i was instructed clearly you must wear at work, at work meant in front of the camera. they made this happen. >> that's good teaching. >> i like it. >> don't wash it. >> if only roland martin were here. >> looks like something roland martin may take seriously. >> polka dots and all. >> tell charlie, good work. >> still ahead on "starting point", brand-new biography on president obama is out. pretty startling revelations that the president's own story in his own auto biography doesn't match up. we'll talk about that as well. and i'm sorry, who won the game? it was the heat. yes. yes! miami heat led by lebron james. who was that? lebron james. >> you have to give her one. come on. >> thank you. >> i hear good music in the background, that must be me.

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welcome back to "starting point", everybody. president obama is in mexico for the meeting of the 20 most powerful economies, developments in greece being closely watched by the president and other leaders of the g-20 summit. let's get right to brianna keilar. >> reporter: the eurozone crisis is front and center as the election is months out and this is the issue that is the biggest

threat to the u.s. economy. president obama looking for signals from european leaders here any g-20 summit, only a handful are here but they are power houses like germany and france. he wants them to signal that they are moving towards a solution and that they are going to get something done to try to contain the issues that europe is facing economically. the other big thing we're watching is this meeting between president obama and russian president vad mir putin. the first meeting since putin was elected as president a short time ago and this is expected certainly to be take bit of a tense meeting as relations between the u.s. and russia are quite strained right now. the big topic there is going to be syria. the u.s. wants to see bashar al assad out of syria. russia has been blocking u.n. efforts to take action. and actually has not only financial interests in syria but a naval base there and moving as we speak two warships to its

naval base there on the mediterranean. >> brianna, thank you for that update. let's get to christine romans. >> supreme decisions coming, supreme court justices have to decide 14 cases before the end of the month, among them, the president's health care reforms and arizona's controversial crackdown on illegal immigrants. opinion days this week are scheduled for today and thursday. so decisions could be handed down as early as 10:00 this morning. one side ends and the other begins. prosecutors are expected to rest their case today in the jerry sandusky child rape trial as the defense starts the major question, will the former penn state football coach take the stand. he's accused of abusing ten boys over a 15-year period. the high park fire burning near fort collins has destroyed at least 181 homes. that's the most in the state's

history. the fire has scorched 86 square miles and officials say it's 45% contained. the heat pulled out a 95-81 win over the thunder. oklahoma city blew a 10-point lead in the second half and kevin durant scored just four points in the fourth quarter. greek voters picked the pro-bailout party there and that pushed up markets overnight. the u foreya is quickly fading this morning. nasdaq futures shall up a little bit because there's still a lot of uncertainty. let's check in with rob marcia marciano. >> things are starting to move. into d.c., showers and thunderstorms heading that way. the stuff to the north in eastern pa will probably fall

apart as it heads towards new york. this was rough and tumbling through minneapolis, the heat will be building, not only chicago but back towards the west as well. the heat pump from the gulf of mexico and fire threat will be high we'll have winds 50 to 60 miles per hour. might touch 100 today in denver. places as far east as chicago will get well into the 90s, maybe setting records there. try to stay cool. >> and i have a feeling that soledad, the only heat she's thinking about is the sports story about the heat. >> what did you say? the heat won last night? have i won my money yet, will? >> no. you are score boarding a game three of a seven-game series. i'm just warning you. >> i can't hear you. i can't hear you. >> let's talk about this new biography, it's about president obama and has some pretty startling revelations. the book is david maraniss's the

story and it questions the president's version of his own history, including his memoir, dreams of my father. it comes out tomorrow. ben smith is the editor in chief of buzz feed and read and analyzed the book. joins us this morning. thanks for being with us. let me read a little chunk. he says, it's important to say it falls into the realm of literature and memoir, not history and autobiography and should not be read as a factual account. they are not merely a matter of style, devices of compression, but also substantive. what exactly are the discrepancies between what everybody has read in president obama's book back in 1995, dreams of my father and this new book? >> they are two different sets of fact checks and maraniss's great book, not just a fact

checking document for sure. the stories and legends and things of his grandparents had done which didn't turn out to have happened, from meeting herbert hoover to fighting colonial struggles, things his mother told him about his father to protect him. then there's a set of things where obama had retold his own story. it is very much about race, the subtitle is a story of race and he had rearranged things in his life and turned white characters black and emphasized race and one woman, a college acquaintance who was central to his politics who was swedish and made her black to kind of tell a very specific story. and i think it's a narrative device but it's really unusual situation which a politician has completely controlled with his own memoir so the revision is interesting. >> you talk about the conspiracy between the president and highest critic because he's

ended up fueling the things conservatives fear most about him. >> in a lot of cases, somebody's political enemies, their instinct would be to debunk thinks but he makes himself look like a wilder kid. he says he used cocaine and nobody has proved that and may may be made up. the people going after him are trying to prove he was even crazier than in his memoir and he thinks his life was tailor. >> to what end? this book was written when he was on the cusp of a political career and think -- the conversations about race, the overall conversations i sort of get why you start framing, who i am. why would you make up how much pot you smoked and if you did drugs? he's trying to create this tension between hmiss spent youh and successful adulthood.

if he was a good student or great -- >> nobody wants to buy that book. >> who also smoked some weed, that's a much less compelling story than this kid who sees there's this moment in the book where he sort of seems like he's considering shooting heroin. it's a great tension. you see -- he's also somebody who thought about being a writer and you see what he's trying to do but it is not just to faithfully portray -- >> the story that would be a great book and is a great book, the search for his own identity. he feels because of his extreme extremely diverse background he doesn't fit in -- >> not the american world, internationalist world, always seeking to find himself. >> that's the core of maraniss's story, how he's shaped by that. he wants to think it's not primarily about race in america and that is sort of in a way simplified version of it. this is psych co-biography, inside the president's head and

that's dangerous terrain. >> it is fascinating. it's nice to have you with us. we appreciate it. we'll talk to david maraniss on wednesday morning right here on "starting point." paying big bucks to settle a lawsuit after users spot themselves in ads. that's never good. our lawyer friend will cain will explain why that's bad. how mitt romney's but tour is turning out -- >> american idol for the president -- >> you have to sing? you're watching qutd starting poi point." >> we'll ask tim pawlenty. man: there's a cattle guard, take a right.

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♪ >> naked eyes, i remember that. i had this album. >> oh, lordy, that took me back for a moment. anyway, moving on. mitt romney's bus tour of six key swing states continues today. some possible vice presidential picks have been going along for the ride. today it will be congress mall paul ryan on board the bus. saturday it was the former minnesota governor. he met up with the bus in pennsylvania. as you point out, it's sort of the "american idol" for vp candidates. >> look at this list, six guys who have been mentioned for vice presidential possibilities, ron repo portman, bobby jindal, marco rubio. >> do you think -- these are states they need to win and get

back as president obama won them in 2008. >> interestingly enough, you have to think mitt romney learned something from the sarah palin choice, the vp needs to be ready to take over the office now and the other thing the number one ambition needs to be to get me elected. there's a lesson. >> i wonder what the conversation -- we'll know because we're going to have a conversation with tim pawlenty and ask him, what are you talking about on the bus? is it 20 questions, word association. >> i'm sure he'll tell us all about -- >> i find him very open and forthright with me all the time. >> will, where do you text your answer to? >> text a to -- >> i thought pawlenty was great, i'm going to vote for him. the beatles and rolling stones and who, to be a fly on the wall backstage at their shows. our next guest was and he is telling his story and took pictures to prove it. the u.s. open, the fan --

>> the bird calling. >> what was that about? he interrupted the trophy presentation. we're watching "starting point." we'll have that story and much more straight ahead.

other stories we're following this morning, talks on iran's nuclear program resuming this morning am moscow. tough oil sanctions are looming despite the latest round of talks. the sanctions from the united states and european union would apply to any country that buys iranian oil and could cut off nearly half of iran's exports. removing a million barrels a day from global oil market. facebook agreeing to pay $10 million in charity in settling a lawsuit over ads the social

networks calls sponsored stories. a group of users sued when they liked a product and saw their picture being used in a sponsored story on their friends pages. settlement needs to be approved by a judge. the family the box office. "madagascar 3" the number one movie in america for the second weekend in a row grossing $35 million. the heavily promoted "rock of ages" pulled in a disappointing $15 million. >> and i support that because my kids love that movie. "madagascar 3" what's not to love? and they're 7 years old. they love everything. it could be the worst movie ever. >> that's true. >> and some of them -- >> no taste in movies. >> some have been the worst. it's animated and they get to eat candy in the middle of the theater. ding, ding, ding.

i want to introduce you to ethan russell. when he was 21 years old ethan russell began photographing some of the biggest legends of rock 'n' roll, the beatles, rolling stones, the who. russell witnessed his interest try unfold behind the scenes with these icons and that history is documented in his new ebook called an american story. it's your history, help write it. it contains 250 photographs, most -- many of the most famous groups of the musicians of the ' '60s and '70s. it's nice to have you with us. the way you got this gig, because you weren't a professional photographer when you started taking professionally -- profession pictures, how did that happen? >> it was by accident. life is what happens while you're making other plans. he said, do you think you are using your time as well as you might? i said short of going around the world.

he said, why don't you do that? i went to san francisco, it was love and music and all those guys, you know. and i went there fully expecting it to be bigger even. they weren't there. you didn't hear them on the radio at all. you didn't see them on television. >> you had access? >> i had access because somebody showed up in my apartment. a friend of a friend. i was working in a hospital with you autistic children. i wasn't even a photographer. and he wanted fob a writer and saw pictures i had of children, one picture of a group my brother managed and asked me if i wanted to photograph mick jagger. >> and the rest, as they say, was history. the pictures are amazing. so there's a picture, january 1969, the beatles, performing their last concert. they were recording "let it be." it tell me. >> another story not unlike the first, when i went down to -- i met all the people that did that movie working for the stones, they were filming. the head of apple told me he

didn't need me to be down there. he said we decided to let you come but you can shoot for one day. i said i wouldn't shoot for one day, i would shoot for three. i went into apple and i was planning to show them to the press officer and one at a time mccartney, lennon, harrison and ringo star all walked in by the time they had flipped through the pictures somebody said, let's do a book. i worked with them for a month. it was a 140-page book that came out with the record everywhere in the world except america. >> oh, my goodness. eight months later the last photo session. you could feel how much things had changed. >> and that picture was never published before this book. it's in the book. and i didn't -- i was 22. i didn't tell people what to do. i didn't have this i have to make a big image. i took the picture that was in front of the camera and at that point that photograph of that session, of which i have several in the book, i call weep. it's never been seen.

and partly because it is next to the last photograph of the beatles. >> you could feel the tension and the unhappiness? >> you could feel it. >> the rolling stones, the beatles, janis joplin, the doors, the who, the list is amazing of people you photographed. on a personal level, who is your favorite to be around? >> well, the first book -- favorites are hard but if i had to choose -- i mean, i think arguably who i haven't is dylan. of the people i photographed, lennon, i think, because after you sort of get out of that massive bubble how great everything is all the time, things get tough which they did for him. he owned it. he said i screwed up but it's just me doing it and that quality of being the person that says it's all of us living our lives and we're going to share that as opposed to package it and dress it up, i admire that tremendously. >> let's talk about that. first of all, you couldn't stumble into the photo session with someone who is a rock icon

certainly now but also it just feels like everybody's image is so closely managed that you wouldn't necessarily get authentic pictures of what it was really like, do you think that's true? >> two really important points behind that. one is that you don't get the history. because it's not shot. no one is there to shoot it. my work, my early work, i did the whole 1969 tour with the stones and i was just there. and you can be there if you look at all these pictures, all i do is stand on the edge and take the pictures. so you lose that. that's one. the other thing is it's product photography in my opinion. it's with that kind of imaging -- >> marketing, marketing, marketing. >> the same for toy ota. >> your whole experience reminds me of almost famous. >> i was thinking the same thing. you seal to be part of the band. what did you say, eight months with the beat snls. >> about two months with the beatles and two years with the stones. a little more. >> do you feel that way, that

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welcome, everybody. our "starting point" open tryouts. potential vp picks bored mitt romney's bus including the former presidential candidate tim pawlenty. we'll talk to him about what goes on behind the scenes on that bus. the greek vote and your pugh tour. what's happening in greece could affect your money in the stock market, your 401(k), and who is picked next to be president. a debate over abortion after referring to her vagina. now she is planning something that could really hit a nerve. that story in "tough call. "it's monday, june 18th. "starting point" begins right now.

a little john mel en klencar you. our team this morning, a cnn contributor and author of "american individualism" margaret. celeste is with us. cnn contributor, nice to have you all with us. mitt romney's bus tour is going through six key swing states and continues today. along for the ride have been some possible vice presidential contenders. today's congressman paul ryan will be on the bus in his home state of wisconsin. saturday was the former minnesota governor, tim pawlenty's turn. he caught up with the campaign in the state of pennsylvania. he's also the national co-chair for the romney campaign and he joins us this morning from minneapolis. it's nice to see you, sir. thanks for being with us. will cain was calling this --

was this the "american idol" of trying to figure out who your presidential pick will be. is that a completely off the board way to describe that or does it feel like you are being vetted or being potentially a vice presidential pick for mitt romney when you're on that bus? >> well, you may be making more of it and you think, soledad, as you go through the swing states of wisconsin and ohio and pennsylvania and new hampshire and others. of course you're going to invite the local senator or governor and those are on the speculated list of vps. for me, obviously i want to do whatever i can to get mitt romney elected president of the united states. i think he will be a terrific president. i think i could serve him best in positions other than vp, so i've encouraged people to look at the other great choices he has. anybody asked or considered would be an honor. >> you demure a lot when you're asked -- i'm having a hard time speaking today which is bad in my job -- when you are asked if you are interested in being a vice president, you demure a

lot. would you like to be named vp and if not, what are the other positions you are talking about? >> demure, that's a fancy word, soledad. >> i can't speak but i have a good vocabulary, darn it. >> do you mean like i duck, bob, weave? no, he's going to have great people to pick from. you mention the names. i think i can help him best in other ways and i'm trying to help him on the campaign but anybody would be honored to be asked or considered. i think i can help him best in other ways than vp and i've tried to communicate that in a variety of settings. >> that's demuring. i'd be honored to help in any way i could. the governor might announce his vp pick which would be early, right, before the convention, maybe give him more time to prepare for debates, et cetera, et cetera, have that person be on the road for him. have you heard about that? is that a discussion that goes on or the conversations and strategy sessions that go on on

that about us? you're on there for hours and hours together, right? >> well, he gets asked about that a lot including from the press traveling with him. we don't speak about the vp as far as timing. there have been discussions about advantage or disadvantages to an early pick or not. as mitt says, we don't have anything for you on that score. it's something that we just don't talk about in the campaign, the vp process is something that will be kept under wraps, if you will, until he makes his decision and announcement. >> so mitt romney sat down with bob sheaffer and was talking about immigration. i want to play a chunk of what he said. >> well, it would be overtaken by events, if you will, by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution with legislation which creates law that relates to these individuals such that they know, not for the term of president but on a permanent basis. >> i won't keep on but a to make

sure i understand, would you leave this in place while you worked out a lopping-term solution or would you repeal it? >> we'll look at that setting as we reach that, but my anticipation is i would come into office and say we need to get this done on a long-term basis. not this stopgap measure. >> the question is would you repeal the president's executive order. and i couldn't fully understand his answer there even though there were certainly a lot of words in it. what is he saying? is that a yes or a no? >> well, he said he would address that when the time came. he didn't provide a yes or no in that context, soledad. the whole interview featured these points on immigration. one is it's disappointing that president obama, even though he had a democratic congress for the first two years of administration, promised the country and particularly the hispanic community, that he would enact comprehensive immigration reform. he didn't do it and now at the 11th hour he comes up with this executive order. two is mitt romney's position is we should enforce the border and

have verification of legality for employment. when it comes to the issue of young children who have been brought here by their parents and through no fault of their own are in the country, we should find a reasonable way at the address that and not have it be a temporary or stopgap or band-aid. he's open to the idea of work ing to a permanent solution on that particular issue. as to the issue of leaving it in place while that permanent solution might unfold, he said he'll decide that when he gets to that point. he didn't say yes or no to that question. >> so it sounds like you are saying -- are you saying that the president shouldn't have done it? if you are saying it's political, it sounds like it's political, done at the 11th hour, as you know since 2001 this particular legislation has been in front of congress, so do you think he shouldn't have done it if it sounds political to you? >> well, it comes at the 11th hour of at least his first term. he's obviously given up working with the congress on these issues apparently.

on the eve of the election, the presidential race, it looks political. it's a real issue. you have young children in this country who through no fault of their own are here and it's an important issue and deserves to be addressed before the congress and as governor romney said on a long term and permanent basis so these young people don't have to guess wlrpt whether or not their status will change. >> it looks political but you think he should have done it. you know, as i'm sure you know, mitt romney said that if he were elected he would veto the dream act, right? >> there are a lot of things labelled the dream act, soled da, so we have to be careful. what governor romney has said is when it comes to senator rubio's ideas about the dream act that he would be open to that. that legislation hasn't been put in final form yet but he said he would consider it or at least look at it. he has said in other settings and times he would be willing to allow a pathway to legal status for children no are in this

situation. for example, if they serve in the military and are honorably discharged. as it relates to the issue of children and through no fault of their own are under that circumstance, he said i'm open to try to explore or consider a permanent solution and i think these a reasonable gesture on his part. >> tim pawlenty joining us this morning. thank you, sir. we appreciate it. >> happy to do it. let's get to christine with a look at the rest of the day's stories. financial markets, initial excitement over the greek election results dwindling this morning. the pro-euro party new democracy with a win over the leftist group syriza. and if greece can form a coalition group as the syriza is announcing it will not be a part of the new government. good morning, matthew.

>> reporter: to try it to forge some sort of coalition because though new democracy, which backs the austerity measures wants greece to stay in the euro won the election yesterday, did it with 129 seats that it secured. it needs 151 which means the former coalition. already had negotiations with syriza. they've rejected a national unity government. they said they will leave the opposition instead. what's happening now the party leader of new democracy, the new prime minister of greece, is negotiating with the other smaller parties to see if he can attract their seats to his coalition in order to provide greece with a stable government in this very volatile, difficult period, christine. >> all right, matthew chance. jamie reuben, former u.s. assistant secretary of state weighs in and the latest on egypt's election. the g-20 summit getting under way in mexico.

the focus for president obama and world leaders there will be the eurozone fiscal crisis and the fate of greece. and meeting with vladimir putin for the first time since he reclaimed the presidency. webb simpson is the u.s. open champion. a final round 68 to finish 1 over par and won the title about i one stroke. his victory was followed by a bizarre incident when a fan interrupted his interview with bob costas. >> i knew that -- the look on his face. simpson said, enjoy the jail cell, pal. the winner, soledad, who is a first timer. >> what was that about? do we know this guy who did the bird call? was there some message that i'm

missing? >> a couple of interpretations. >> for the avian watchers. >> oh, not just the bird -- for the birds, you mean? >> i don't know what bird that is. >> i understand what you are saying, though. >> huh, weird. okay. or not. still ahead on "starting point" the muslim brotherhood declares victory in egypt but will the military actually let the new president lead. jamie rubin will join us this morning. and a democrat says she was barred from mentioning the female anatomy. she is planning a performance. it's our new segment called "tough call." [ male announcer ] now you can swipe... scroll... tap...

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that's the beach boys, "good vibrations." we return to our top story this morning. the historic elections in greece and egypt overnight in egypt the muslim brotherhood announced their canned did i mohamed morsi won. official results, though, aren't in and won't be in until thursday and morsi's opponent ahmed shafiq maintains the votes need to be tallied and may not be the winner. jamie rubin joins us. let's start with the muslim brotherhood claiming victory but won't really know until thursday. the expectations by many, though, are they could win. what will this mean? >> it's meaning less and less

each day. what's happened here is the muslim brotherhood candidate mr. morsi wins, he will be president, but he will be president in an office that has been shrunk dramatically by the military government. they've eliminated the main powers that mubarak, the former president, used to have. they've eliminated the powers of budget, of oversight of the military, of any of the powers that we would associate with the presidency and they've done that precisely because they're aprayed of the muslim brotherhood president. >> they say that's a coup, equivalent to a coup. can the military and the judges, obviously installed by mubarak, can they do that? >> it looks like they will. whether they can or not, they will. and i think the problem here is that from an american standpoint we obviously want to see democratic change in egypt. all of us were very moved by what happened in tahrir square. >> i sense a but coming. >> and all the developments that occurred towards democracy and egypt, but i think when the rest

of the world looked in the eye, the idea of a muslim brotherhood president, much of the world we went, oh, boy, is this such a good idea. >> moving from the secular government that is sort of there now -- >> to the muslim brotherhood governme government. and i think that's why it's going to be a complicated response by the rest of the world. on the one hand there will be a critique of this clear interference in the political process. on the other hand i think a lot of analysts around the world, the u.s. government, were worried about a muslim brotherhood controlling not only the presidency but also the parliament and having the power to turn egypt into an islamist state. i don't think that is going to be allowed to happen now, and that's what the real news is here. the military looked to this possibility of a muslim brotherhood in egypt and said, no, we can't accept this and they've done what they needed to do in an ex constitutional manner to stop it.

>> does that mean the u.s. stands outside and does nothing? >> first of all, we've learned in the arab spring the limitations on american power here. this is not a situation where we can dictate the outcome. yes, we get a lot of military assistance to the military that will come under great scrutiny, the congressional leaders who hold the power of that money to the egyptian military are going to probably with hold some of it now. >> we're displeased with the outcome, right? >> wouldn't the u.s. support that? >> usurping the democratic process. >> exactly. >> but, and this is the but, much of the world has been so uncertain about the direction of this evolution has taken to a full muslim brotherhood control that it will limit the extent much of the criticism because people are confused as this discussion indicates. it's a complex mess. the democratic process has not

really moved forward in an encouraging way. >> it is a complex mess in greece. the new democracy government won with sort of a very tiny, tiny march jib and the coalition government and they have this looming deadline. i think it's ten business days essentially. are they going to meet that deadline? >> i suspect so. there were a few outcomes and this is the best of the few. they could have had a real muddy outcome with no clear victor and there is a victor and that's encouragi encouraging. they could have voted are for the anti-euro party and that would have sent shock waves around the world. >> a disaster. >> one way of putting it. so this is the best of the three realistic outcomes and i suspect that with the fact that this vote was so clearly a referendum on staying in the euro and the opponents lost, the opponents staying in the euro lost, i think that will give a lot of momentum to the coalition. it doesn't get greece out of its

troubles. it doesn't get europe out of its troubles -- >> it kicks the can down the row ro road. >> we're preoccupied with the presidential election. has there been much leadership on the european front from this white house? >> what has it to happen? >> i think the fact -- there's another little election we should focus on, the french president, who is really an ally for america in this situation, because he wants to see a situation develop that doesn't cause the chaos of collapsing europe, has strengthened his power. it's a real complicated mess. i would say that coming out of the g-20 what we want to see is the world gets behind the idea that the voters have prevented greece from jumping over a cliff. now the world needs to support that outcome with real power. >> jamie rubin, nice to see you. i feel less confused but just as worried as when we started. still ahead on "starting point"

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i'm christine romans. microsoft keeping the pc versus mac war going. the tech world is buzzing about a secret event planned by microsoft for this afternoon. various media outlets believes

microsoft will unveil a new windows 8 tablet to rival the ipad. if true, it will be the first time in 37 years microsoft has released a computer of its own. just minutes from now at 8:30 a.m. on the east, a group of catholic nuns in iowa will hold a rally denouncing paul ryan's budget proposal. that rally is kicking off a two-week bus tour where sisters will spread their message that ryan's budget will harm millions of poor americans. the so-called nuns on the bus will leave from des moines and end in washington, d.c. and on court temper tantrum by tennis star david nbandian. a complaint has been filed. he was disqualified from the final of the queens club tournament, a traditional wimbledon warm-up, soledad.

>> tennis players behaving badly. i'm stunned, shocked. now time for our segment "tough call." today's tough call involves a michigan democrat, lisa brown is her name. lawmakers planning a big protest. she was banned from speaking during a state legislative session. the reason she was banned, she made reference to her private parts, are using the word vagina, while arguing for tighter regulations against abortion. i teach my children to use the right words. she told the michigan speaker she was flattered by everybody's interest in her female and atom. so today she is going to perform the have a aye in a mvagina mon. >> it's in protest of the ban and she is the first ever to be censured. two of them for using them on the state floor of the capitol. instead of taking on the

contents of the bill, it would ban abortion beyond 20 weeks, this is clearly something that gets people riled up. instead of taking on the issue and the substance of the bill she is doubling down and performing the vagina monologue on the state capitol steps, a very graphic play which acts out very sexually explicit acts. >> there are other ways you could go. >> there are. wouldn't we be talking about it it's pr? this fight over this bill in mi michigan has been extremely impassioned. it's been going on for quite some time. many of the women in michigan are upset. how many times has it been covered on national news until now? >> you are not going to engender by acting out orgasms on the state capitol steps. >> we're talking about it, drawing attention to what she believes -- her doing the monologue on the steps? >> you are the contrarian. come on.

>> i open the doors to free speech and she can make a fool of herself anytime she likes. >> i'm not sure she's making a fool of herself. i'm pulling you back. i'm pulling will back. i just think that -- i think if you have a platform suddenly, i thought the censure was wrong. if you look at the rules, there's nothing -- she didn't -- she kept decorum. >> she shouldn't have been silenced on the floor of the house. i don't know her recourse is one we can all applaud. >> it's going to get her support. god bless america, it is her right to choose it. anyway, moving on, still ahead, if mitt romney wins the white house would rick santorum take a job in the new administration? the former candidate weighs in on that question. plus, the fifth grade student gets a lesson in censureship but

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welcome back to "starting point." to the top stories with christine romans. the supreme court will be busy the rest of the month as justices scramble to finish up 14 cases. among them the president's health care reform law and the crackdown on illegal immigrants in arizona. opinion days are scheduled for today and thursday. we could learn more about what killed rodney king, the l."l.a. times" reports his fiancee called police after hearing a splash early in the morning. he was found at the bottom of a pool. police say there are no signs of foul play. king became a national symbol, of course, of racial tensions after ray oiots erupted when po

were found not guilty in his infamous beating. he was 47 years old. after a pretty nasty primary season, rick santorum is saying he wouldn't take a job in a potential mitt romney administration. santorum telling our candy crowley it's pretty much a flat no even though he says he wants to help romney become president. a fifth grader getting a real life lesson in free speech. cameron had won the right to compete in school wide speech competition became the subject of controversy after his principal told him to change topics or be banned from competing. why? his speech was about same sex marriage. for the state department of education stepped in this weekend and cameron will now be able to give his original speech today. in today, your 401(k) and elections in greece. the pro-bailout party there has pushed markets up overnight. but that euphoria down. why? serious questions remain about

broader problems in europe like spain. u.s. markets have been jittery of late. the s&p 500 down about 5% over the past three months. economists warn the economy here is very fragile. >> fairly weak from the deep financial crisis recession we had which, unfortunately, is typical. and now, we might be hit by another hammer blow coming from europe, from china, and already from europe there's a lot of uncertainty. so even if you don't know that the media is going to hit, you are hiding, worrying about it. >> so how can you protect your money instead of just hiding from it. check in on your investments regularly, allocated properly, and that you are taking the right risks for your age and rebalance periodically. greece will be front and center today as world leaders meet for the g-20 summit there, soledad. so we're just beginning, believe it or not, after all this about greece, we are just beginning

the story about greece's recovery. >> it's going to be a long one. christine, thank you. president obama's new immigration policy faces growing political opposition this morning. the new directive would allow some young, illegal immigrants to stay and work in this country without the threat of deportation. opponents aren't just protesting the policy itself. they are questioning how the president enacted the rule. they say they're frustrated because the president is bypassing congress through an executive order. republican congressman's state has the second highest estimated illegal immigrant population in the united states. good morning. nice to see you. what is your opposition to this policy? >> there is a problem that needs to be dealt with. the president needs to come to congress. we couldn't pass the dream act with the democratic controlled congress, couldn't get the 60 votes in the senate and now doing what the dream act said. we have a president, not a king. >> so earlier this morning i spoke to dr. richard lynn, president of the southern

baptist convention. he says he supports it. he applauds the president for th this. this is what he told me earlier. listen. >> the president's action complicates the politics by but it reduces the urgency because it does keep these young people from the fear of being deported. these are young people that are a national resource. >> do you think these are young people that are a national resource as he does? >> listen, the innocent victims were brought across the border as youngsters against their will. in most cases we paid to educate them. in some cases -- >> not necessarily against their will, right? they went with their parents. >> they had no say in it. >> okay. >> i do think it's a problem that needs to be dealt with. there's a broad immigration problem in public debate. we need to be talking about things like this dream act, but we need to also be talking about verify, broad border security. you get all of those together, you have enough -- you have enough momentum, you might be

able to come up with dpre hencive immigration reform. if you pick them up one at a time and do it not through copping but executive order, you are bypassing the way our founding fathers intend ed it t work. >> hasn't it been in congress for a long, long, long, long time. >> well, there's a reason for that. >> and then in 2007, in 2010 twice actually, right? >> and it hasn't been able to pass. congress elected by the people, the people's representatives have said no to this and the president is saying yes to it. >> well, saying yes to -- he's saying yes to one provision of it which focuses on the very young people that just a moment ago richard land called young people that are a national resource. >> well, you are also talking about people that came over 16 years of age. at that point you had a say in it and that looks more like amnesty. you are looking at 12 and under people. it certainly looks -- i can understand that. we do a lot of case work out of my brownsville, texas, office

for folks with exactly this problem. >> you think a 16-year-old whose parents are coming across the border has a say in whether or not they are going to stay behind in their kcountry? >> they're certainly in a position to have a conversation with their parents about it. >> a 16-year-old is in a position to have a conversation with their parents about coming across the border, do you think? >> believe me, my 16-year-old daughter has given me input on everything -- pretty much everything the family wants to do. >> some people would say, li listen, congress hasn't done the job they have you had have been doing. if they look into the dream act, there was a fill pus er, it was kill. they introduced it again in 2011 when it was reintroduce d. those who supported it in the past decided not to this time around. it sounds like congress has had a lot of time with this bill. >> soledad, one of the things congress can do is say no. our decisions are not necessarily always a yes. sometimes when we look at the overall policy and law and

everything associated with it, no is the right answer. >> but there's been no policy -- you started the segment by telling me you think there needs to be some kind of reform, right? >> there does. it needs to be debated in congress. >> since 2001 this has been in front of congress and nothing has been done. it has never been gone through, never been tweaked despite many attempts. despite efforts of congress too much the bill in front of them, they haven't moved on it. >> and, again, i think it's the appropriate role of congress to say now is not the time or this is not the way we want to do it. i don't think congress is unwilling to take it up. we will take it up. the president should have come to us and said, hey look, this is what i want to do. here is a proposed bill. run it through the regular order of things and we'll pass it or we won't based on the merit with public input. that's the way our founding fathers intended. congress enacts the laws.

the president enforces it. he doesn't have the right to pick and choose which laws he enforces and which laws he doesn't. >> blake farenthold, nice to see you. thanks for talking with us. still ahead, warren buffett doesn't mess around. fired one of his top ceos for celebrating too much. americans believe they should be in charge of their own future. how they'll live tomorrow. for more than 116 years, ameriprise financial has worked for their clients' futures. helping millions of americans retire on their terms. when they want. where they want. doing what they want. ameriprise. the strength of a leader in retirement planning. the heart of 10,000 advisors working with you one-to-one.

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group. so the public firing is something they lost money over the years, the housing crisis. it began to come back in the first quarter of profits actually. >> get on a boat, go on a cruise. >> tell ceos to keep a low profile and not treat their companies as though they're a commodity. this is the advice he gives to his executives. you are not going to sell it or merge it but treat this like your house. >> this is it. and it seems like the celebration for some people, the yacht trip and the dinner in bermuda seemed to be celebrating after they had gotten there by firing a bunch of people -- >> cut commissions. >> five years of losses, one quarter of good times does not amount to a bermuda trip. >> frozen salaries, slashed commissio commissions, layoffs for five years. he's out of a big. he doesn't play around, huh?

hey, how are you, good-bye. >> they escorted him out. >> that's never good. >> every other ceo owned by berkshire hathaway is taking note of this. >> cancel the christmas party. that is so true. we laugh but it's completely true. still ahead, president obama joins other leaders of the g-20 summit with a crisis in europe on everybody's minds. we'll take you live to mexico for an update on that. also, the nba store who says he was hurt when chris brown and entourage tangled in a nightclub. you inspired a ron howard production.

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say the high park fire burning near ft. collins is almost 50% contained but there are still more evacuations. the blaze has destroyed 181 homes, the most in colorado's history. the wildfire is being driven by a combination of high winds and extremely hot, dry conditions. a new celebrity caught up in the chris brown drake bar fight. tony parker says he suffered a scratched retina in the fight and now has to put off training with the french olympic basketball team. also new, the new york city club where the fight started has been shut down. police say eight people were injured including singer chris bro brown. witnesses told officers the fight started when drake's entourage confronted brown as he was leaving that club. call it top chef. 700 applications to a space simulation have been whittled down to nine. their mission, to took footd on mars healthy and appetizing. six of the nine participants will spend four months in a

martian like habitat, develop the strategy to fee a human colony on mars. i feel like they're rushing that a little bit. >> christine, thank you very much. so you have a present for me? >> i do. we have been talking so much about what culinary works and you love chocolate and bacon. >> i do individually. >> you have to try this chocolate bacon bar. >> with hick try smoke uncured bacon. mcdonald's has its own version of this. it's delicious. everybody thinks chocolate and bacon don't go well together. >> did i say that? >> i don't think it goes well together. it looks nice. >> i was passing through the chicago airport and i saw this on the stand and, you know -- >> does it come with anti-cholesterol medication? >> it's dark chocolate, very good for you.

>> it's kind of weird. >> it is strange. >> crunchy. >> celeste, you party popper, take a piece of the bacon, come on. >> crunchy bacon in that. sweet and salty. what do you think? the verdict? >> i don't hate it. i don't hate it as much as i thought i would hate it. it's not like strips of bacon. you want more bacon. while you're eating i'm going to continue on. the most powerful heads of state including the president, president obama, are meeting face-to-face at the g-20 summit in mexico. the immediate priority, of course, is to re-energize the sagging global economy. it brings us to brianna keilar. what progress they are expecting to make on that front in mexico. >> reporter: soledad, the white house is downplaying that you will see a solution obviously to the eurozone crisis or concrete steps to the eurozone crisis. but president obama is here with a message for some of these leaders, 4 of the 17 here at the

summit. he wants to say to them get it done, send some signals that you are going to take some really necessary but also difficult steps to shore up the economic crisis because just months out from the election his re-election hinges on the u.s. economy and the u.s. economy hinging at this moment on what happens there in the eurozone, soledad. >> so then the other thing he is probably going to do is meet with vladimir putin. that's expected. and it will be the first since putin has been re-elected. how is that expected to go? >> reporter: that's right. and it comes at this time of extreme tension, as you know, soledad. he'll be moeeting with presiden putin later this morning. they'll be talking iran. the big thing is syria. this is a major sticking point between the u.s. and russia. the u.s. wants al asad out. russia does not see it that way. they have financial interests,

there's a naval base that russia operates and there are two warships, as we speak, heading to syria. russia at the same time, though they're at odds, is seen as key to the situation in syria and also the situation in iran. but i think this is a meeting we'll be watching closely and it might just be a practice in awkwardness. >> one would think, right? brianna keilar, thank you. people with a machine.

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all right. who wants to start? celeste, do you want to start today? >> from the vagina argument in michigan, we could call ait tension to these kind of issues without having to be showboating about it. that would be my wish as a journalist. >> i would agree. it's unfortunate you have to stand on the steps of the state house and do something because of something that's happened you want to make sure nobody misses it in the news. that's unfortunate. for many conservatives on the immigration issue and blake farenthold did a good job explaining how democracy works. >> is that what he was doing? explaining how democracy works? >> i do, soledad. the concept is not always to get something done. it is supposed to be hard to get things done. >> then congress is doing great. >> i know. >> you resolve if you don't like the way the democratic process is working is not to say, do it how you want.

>> this president -- what the president has done is not the first time, obviously. >> executive orders are not an act of the constitution. >> for me to explaining the difference between this and others is this -- >> the emancipation proclamation? >> good point. >> the constitution, emancipation proclamation, the president can say that's not constitutional. prosecutorial is a case-by-case issue. this is anti-democratic and that is the problem. look, i like the dream act. if i were a legislator, i would vote for it. it's a big problem. >> it's mott unprecedented and is called for in our constitution. >> would you like to take your 20 seconds for "end point"? >> that bacon chocolate bar was delicious. now i'm on a